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Steampunk is a music genre which started during the 1980s and early 1990s and makes use of elements of science fiction, fantasy, alternative history, horror, and speculative fiction. Steampunk is influenced by, and quite often adopts the fashion of, the 19th-century scientific romances of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley. It calls for an environment where by steam power is largely used-whether within an alternative background such as Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United States, or maybe in a post-apocalyptic time -that includes elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk typically feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have imagined them, based on a Victorian viewpoint relating to fashion, way of life, architectural style, and art. This technology incorporates such fictional machines as those based in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or maybe the modern-day authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld and China Mieville.

 Other sorts of instances of steampunk consist of alternate history-style displays of such technologies as lighter-than-air airships, analog personal computers, or such electronic digital electro-mechanical computer systems as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace's Analytical Engine. Steampunk also describes art, fashion, and design and style which are informed by the aesthetics of Steampunk novels. A variety of modern functional products have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanised "steampunk" fashion, and a variety of aesthetic and musical artists are already known as steampunk.Victorian In general, the category consists of any recent science fiction which will take place in a well-known historical time (occasionally an alternative history version of an actual historical period of time) during which the Industrial Revolution has recently begun, but electricity isn't yet commonplace. It places an emphasis on steam- or spring-propelled gadgets. The most typical traditional steampunk settings are the Victorian and Edwardian eras, though some within this "Victorian steampunk" group may go as early as the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Alternate world Ever since the 1990s, the use of the steampunk label has broadened past works placed in recognizable historical periods, to works set in fantasy worlds that will depend closely on steam- or spring-powered technology. Fantasy steampunk settings are plentiful in tabletop and pc role-playing activities. Notable examples include Skies of Arcadia, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy IX, Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, and Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.

Fantasy and horror Kaja Foglio introduced the term "Gaslight Romance", gaslamp fantasy, of which John Clute and John Grant consider as "steampunk tales ... mostly set in a romanticized, smoky, 19th-century London, as are Gaslight Romances. However the latter category focuses nostalgically on symbols from the late years of that century and the early years of the 20th century--on Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes and even Tarzan--and can normally be perceived as incorporating supernatural fiction and recursive fantasy, though a few gaslight romances might be read as fantasies of history." A few, such as author/artist James Richardson-Brown makes use of the term steamgoth to refer to Steampunk expressions of fantasy and horror with a "darker" tendency.hh